Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Werther is the story of a young poet tortured by unrequited love for Charlotte who ...

Listen to our quick overview of this week's opera broadcast of Jules Massenet's Werther, airing Saturday at noon. This week, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn, and opera expert, Eric ...

The Met Opera regrets to announce that the Met has canceled the remainder of the 2019–20 season of live performances due to the coronavirus pandemic. This includes all performances and Live in HD ...

Jules Massenet’s “Werther” is a staple of the European opera house repertory, but its Goethe-inspired protagonist remains an infrequent visitor to American shores. Despite the fact that the opera ...

The Boston Public Library’s Abbey Room filled with song Thursday night as cast members from Boston Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of “Werther” performed short excerpts from the opera for a packed ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Different art forms reframe and reimagine one another to form an original vision ...

Massenet's "Werther," which returned to the War Memorial Opera House on Wednesday night for the first time in 25 years, is not so much tragic as gloom laden, a fraught tale of missed connections and ...

He loves her; she’s already betrothed to someone else and holding to her promise to her mother to marry that man. Over four acts our title character’s depression deepens while his frustration grows.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Who said that Puccini and Tchaikovsky gave us the height of operatic passion? Try the later stages of this revival of ...

Sophie Koch (Charlotte) and Rolando Villazón (Werther) in Act III of Massenet's 'Werther': Will they? Won't they?Catherine Ashmore For the first two acts, it seemed so. It initially blew a hole in the ...

What was up with all those chairs? We’ll get to that. The good news was the Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of Jules Massenet’s “Werther,” which opened Friday evening at the Shubert Theatre, featuring ...